This paper1 describes Participatory Wealth Ranking’s (PWR) accuracy in predicting the poverty status of groups identified by socio-economic indicators. On the basis of a census in 8 villages located in three of the six divisions of Bangladesh, 1660 households were scored using the...

This paper draws on empirical research carried out in two rural communities in North-West Pakistan to establish a baseline picture of the patterns of non-farm activities andidentify the extent of change in non-agricultural employment as well as the determinantsof participation in informal...

Am 30. August stellte Staatssekretär Wolf-Michael Catenhusen vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung(BMBF) die Buchfassung des ersten Berichts zur sozioökonomischen Entwicklung in Deutschland vor.1 Die nachstehendeKurzfassung des Einleitungskapitels gibt wichtige Ergebnisse des...

The socio-economic mosaic of urban neighbourhoods changes under the influence of three distinctive distributional processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between neighbourhoods; and an overall growth or decline in income levels...

Many studies of urban and neighbourhood change investigate changes in the relative positions of neighbourhoods within an urban region, without looking at the underlying processes. Often, changes in socio-spatial structures reflect intensifying socio-spatial divisions caused by both increasing...

The socio-economic mosaic of urban neighbourhoods changes under the influence of three distinctive distributional processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between neighbourhoods; and an overall growth or decline in income levels...

Many studies of urban and neighbourhood change investigate changes in the relative positions of neighbourhoods within an urban region, without looking at the underlying processes. Often, changes in socio-spatial structures reflect intensifying socio-spatial divisions caused by both increasing...